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What would you do here?

You are in a cafe. Outside, you see a person get into a car. The window is down. The person attempts to back out but a pedestrian reaches in and grabs the driver by the head, effectively causing the driver to stop. What would you do at this point?

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VotesAnswer
13Call the police
2Grab the pedestrian, letting the driver get away
21Watch and see what happens next
9Go outside and try to break them up
0Pull the driver out of the car
3Nothing
2I don't know
4Something else

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mandy
posted 20-Dec-2002 2:21am  
Watch
Make a funny face
Maarten
posted 20-Dec-2002 4:10am  
Watch Mandy making a funny face
Dino
posted 20-Dec-2002 4:16am  
Watch and see what happens next. I'm terrible like that.
Iseult Survey Central Subscriber Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 20-Dec-2002 7:31am  
Wait. who knows what's happening?
Zang
posted 20-Dec-2002 7:57am  
I might continue to look, or I might look away. It would depend on what else was around to attract my attention; a nice set of bewbs, something shiny...

I doesn't sound to me like an incident particularly worthy of a reaction.
ROCKMAN
posted 20-Dec-2002 9:05am  
I'd watch and see what happens, they might just know each other, the next step would be for me to try and break it up. I'm not one to stand around if something bad is going down.
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
posted 20-Dec-2002 10:33am  
Yay! I'm happy about the answers so far. We aren't a presumptive, reactionary bunch at all, are we?  * smile * It's cool to see careful people.
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 20-Dec-2002 10:48am  
Call the police and go outside to try to break it up. I wouldn't just grab the pedestrian, because maybe they own the car and are trying to keep someone from stealing it!
mandy
(reply to Maarten) posted 20-Dec-2002 5:13pm  
HA!
I love you, Fox....
Strider Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Qualifier
posted 21-Dec-2002 12:25am  
Call the police
kaleb777 Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 22-Dec-2002 2:35am  
Yell out, "OI! Whataya doing!!?"
sonikJ
posted 22-Dec-2002 10:26am  
I'd go out and try to break them up. No one else probably would, so it would be up to someone!
ruthann
posted 22-Dec-2002 11:57am  
watch and see and then maybe call the police if needed
NthenSome
posted 22-Dec-2002 6:47pm  
Instinctively, I'd shove the pedestrian to the ground. I think it's the best move because it still gives her the chance to stay if these two are somehow related - like they're really a couple who's in town because they're guests on the next taping of "Jerry Springer" or something, and they're just arguing in their usual fashion.

My brother-in-law followed me out a bar once and found me shoving this guy because of the way I saw him pinching on her ass while they were inside. She acted all annoyed and I saw he was leaving alone, so I approached him. By the time my brother-in-law got out there the "annoyed girl" came bouncing in between all of us, and put her arm around her...yes, her husband. I was pretty embarrassed.

I'll sure do it again if it looks like an attack. I wouldn't be able to help myself - I'd just be in the middle of it in a second. Hopefully your character doesn't have a gun.
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
(reply to NthenSome) posted 22-Dec-2002 10:33pm  
You wouldn't take time to make sure you knew who was in the wrong? What if the pedestrian was attacking the driver because the driver was stealing the car?
NthenSome
(reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2002 2:41am  
You know what's strange is I pictured this episode only happening in one, very specific way - a lady was being attacked by the male pedestrian. I never considered any alternatives. Maybe that's why I almost chanced fighting a guy for goosing his own wife, haha!

With the lady being attacked by a guy (in my version), I guess I didn't think of the possibility that she could be the gangstah, ready to take some new wheels for a little joy ridin'. That's pretty interesting.
scrubnurse
posted 23-Dec-2002 4:56am  
Watch to see what happens as I get ready with my cell phone to call '911'.
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
(reply to NthenSome) posted 23-Dec-2002 11:05am  
I made my people gender-unknown, but it's not surprising that people attribute genders to them. It seems natural. Yeah it is interesting. I've thought about that before, how males seem more suspicious than females. One time someone called security because a male was sitting on the edge of a wooded trail. "Not doing anything, just sitting there" the caller said. I wonder if it would have been as suspicious if the trail sitter would have been female.
anonymous
posted 23-Dec-2002 1:51pm  
Take out my Glock and tell the pedestrian to back away from the driver...
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
(reply to anonymous) posted 23-Dec-2002 2:18pm  
You are kidding, right?
Biggles Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 25-Dec-2002 1:52pm  
Initially, I would probably watch to see what happens next. If it looks like an assault is in progress, I would probably shout. If I'm in a cafe, it's likely that there would be people in there who are bigger and stronger than me who could actually do something. I might go outside and shout if no-one else did anything. If that didn't help, I'd probably call the police, or get someone else to.
anonymous
(reply to LindaH) posted 29-Dec-2002 10:58pm  
Well tell me punk, do feel lucky? Well, do ya?
sunshine
posted 31-Dec-2002 8:42pm  
If I was to get involved at all, it would be to call the police if it looked like they were in a heated argument. You never know who might have a gun on them.
wolfchik9
posted 3-Jan-2003 4:00am  
Wait to see if there is any real danger to either person. If so, call the police on my cell phone and tell a cafe employee to alert the manager.
anonymous
(reply to LindaH) posted 4-Jan-2003 4:04am  
Well, do ya punk?
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
posted 4-Jan-2003 11:24am  
You mean as lucky as the pedestrian who was being threatened/detained as someone drove off in his car?
darkshadowsseeker
posted 11-Jan-2003 11:54pm  
Call the police.
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